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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Covenanters."”.
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Saints and subverters : the later Covenanters in Scotland c.1648-1682
In 1649 a radical faction of Covenanters seized power in Scotland. Upheld by supporters as the zenith of the 'Covenanted Reformation' - the constitutional revolution and godly reformation underwritten by the National Covenant of 1638 and Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 - the 'rule of the saints' …
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The contribution of Scottish covenant thought to the discussions of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1648) and its continuing significance to the Marrow controversy (1717-1723)
… from his relationship to the world. For the Covenanters, it became the central hermeneutical key for interpreting Scripture. Covenant theology had been familiar to the Church of Scotland for some time; the Scottish Covenanters adopted and applied it rigorously to their lives and situation …
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'The grave and solemn Earl' : a political study of John Kennedy, sixth Earl of Cassillis during the Covenanting movement, 1637-1651
… into religious uniformity with England. The Covenanters asserted their right to uphold Presbyterian church governance and rebelled against the monarch. John Kennedy, sixth Earl of Cassillis, was a committed Covenanter and powerful nobleman in the south of Ayrshire. Cassillis has been …
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The experience of discipline in parish communities in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1638 - 1651
… religious innovations of Charles I, the Covenanters, Scotland’s leading Presbyterian divines, enforced a programme of moral reform that was intended to re-shape the lives of every member of society. This thesis is a bottom-up history of their attempts at religious revolution – it is about …
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An analysis of the Committee for the Security of the Kingdom of the Scottish Parliament, 1693-1702
… who drew on the constitutional reforms of the Covenanters.3 This act allowed the Parliament to create committees on an ad-hoc basis to relieve the Parliament of its legislative burden.Committees had long been a feature of the Scottish Parliament. The Lords of the Articles, created in the 1450s, …
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"For Reformation and Uniformity": George Gillespie (1613-1648) and the Scottish Covenanter Revolution
As one of the most remarkable of the Scottish Covenanters, George Gillespie had a reputation in England and Scotland as an orthodox Puritan theologian and apologist for Scottish Presbyterianism. He was well known for his controversial works attacking the ceremonies of the Church of England, …
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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
… tradition. It demonstrates how royalists and Covenanters merged analyses of legal categories drawn from a Catholic scholastic tradition with standard Protestant interpretations of the duty of the Christian magistrate. It argues that royalist and Covenanter leaders articulated ‘secular’ …
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King Campbell : the public career of the Marquis of Argyll (1607?-1661)
… (1638) and examines his avowed sympathy for the Covenanters at the Glasgow Assembly. Chapter Four considers his emerging role as leader of the Covenanting movement and his constitutional aims in the wake of the Glasgow Assembly (1638) and the Edinburgh Assembly (1639). Chapter Five describes the …
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King Campbell : the public career of the Marquis of Argyll (1607?-1661)
… (1638) and examines his avowed sympathy for the Covenanters at the Glasgow Assembly. Chapter Four considers his emerging role as leader of the Covenanting movement and his constitutional aims in the wake of the Glasgow Assembly (1638) and the Edinburgh Assembly (1639). Chapter Five describes the …
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The origin and organization of the covenanting movement during the reign of Charles I, 1625-41: with a particular reference to the West of Scotland
… of 1638 through recourse to hostilities between Covenanters and Royalists during the Bishops' Wars of 1639-40. Having brought to bear sufficient military and political pressure to oblige Charles I to concede diplomatic recognition for the Scottish state as an independent identity within the …